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Show REGRET OF A JUDGE. Judge Milo P. Smith, who presides over the Marion county, Iowa, court, sentenced an I. W. W. traitor who pleaded plead-ed guilty to a charge of promoting hos: tility to the government, to a year in jail and fined him $1000 in addition. That was the limit under the statutes. Judge Smith, however, was not content, although expressing his pleasure at being be-ing able to impose some kind of a sentence, sen-tence, and he said to the prisoner: "I regret that the law did Hot permit me to order you to be stood up against a wall and shot." Horror of the I. W. W. has permeated all classes of society in the United States, and the Iowa judge was justified iu expressing his detesta tion of the crime of-the traitor'before him, and also his regret at not being able to put an enemy of the government out of the way for all time to come. One good result of the war with the central powers has been the complete expose of the aims and purposes of this fake labor organization known as fhc Industrial Workers of the World. It is not the betterment of conditions that these people want, but anarchy. They will not be able to raise head in the United Slates after the war is over. |